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Voter Katie Wilson, 58, walks into a voting booth at the Dublin Town Hall polling place, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Dublin, N.H.

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Voter Katie Wilson, 58, walks into a voting booth at the Dublin Town Hall polling place, on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Dublin, N.H.

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Just one week after the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire holds the country’s first primary election.

New Hampshire has continuously held the first primary in the nation for over 100 years. Compared to Iowa, New Hampshire’s electorate is more moderate partially because independents are allowed to participate in the primaries.

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New Hampshire voters turned out and were met with crowds and lines. Candidates visited polling places to make their final pitches voters. There were over 20 candidates on both the Democratic and Republican ballots.

Former President Donald Trump won the New Hampshire GOP primary and President Joe Biden won for the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

Here is a look on the ground:

Hundreds of voters line up down a hallway of Bedford High School as the polls open in the morning in Bedford, N.H. on Jan. 23, 2024.

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Hundreds of voters line up down a hallway of Bedford High School as the polls open in the morning in Bedford, N.H. on Jan. 23, 2024.

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Nancy Campbell, 71, a ballot clerk at the Dublin Town Hall polling place, helps a voter on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Dublin, N.H.

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Nancy Campbell, 71, a ballot clerk at the Dublin Town Hall polling place, helps a voter on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Dublin, N.H.

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Brian Johnson and his children Reid, 9, and Sage, “Almost seven,” vote together at Newfields Town Hall during the New Hampshire Primary in Newfields, N.H. on Jan. 23, 2024.

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Brian Johnson and his children Reid, 9, and Sage, “Almost seven,” vote together at Newfields Town Hall during the New Hampshire Primary in Newfields, N.H. on Jan. 23, 2024.

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Mary Loftis, 76, an Assistant Moderator at the Dublin Town Hall polling place, helps voters turn in their ballots on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Dublin, N.H.

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Mary Loftis, 76, an Assistant Moderator at the Dublin Town Hall polling place, helps voters turn in their ballots on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Dublin, N.H.

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Voters at Bedford High School walk through ropes in line to collect their ballots to vote in Bedford, N.H. on Jan. 23, 2024.

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Voters at Bedford High School walk through ropes in line to collect their ballots to vote in Bedford, N.H. on Jan. 23, 2024.

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People wait in line to register to vote at Milford High School on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Milford, N.H.

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People wait in line to register to vote at Milford High School on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Milford, N.H.

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A person votes at the Keene Ward 1 polling place on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Keene, N.H.

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A person votes at the Keene Ward 1 polling place on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Keene, N.H.

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“I voted” stickers line the edge of a ballot box at the Keene Ward 1 polling place on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Keene, N.H.

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“I voted” stickers line the edge of a ballot box at the Keene Ward 1 polling place on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, in Keene, N.H.

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump visits a polling site at Londonderry High School on primary day, on Jan. 23, 2024 in Londonderry, N.H.

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump visits a polling site at Londonderry High School on primary day, on Jan. 23, 2024 in Londonderry, N.H.

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is joined by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu as they visit a polling location at Winnacunnet High School to greet voters on Jan. 23, 2024, in Hampton, N.H.

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is joined by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu as they visit a polling location at Winnacunnet High School to greet voters on Jan. 23, 2024, in Hampton, N.H.

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Voters line up to register to vote at the Talbot Gym in Exeter, N.H. on Jan. 23, 2024.

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The results of the First-in-the-Nation midnight vote for the New Hampshire primary elections are revealed in the Living Room of the Tillotson House at the Balsams Grand Resort in Dixville Notch, N.H., on Jan. 23, 2024.

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The results of the First-in-the-Nation midnight vote for the New Hampshire primary elections are revealed in the Living Room of the Tillotson House at the Balsams Grand Resort in Dixville Notch, N.H., on Jan. 23, 2024.

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A person stops to see a pro-Donald J. Trump RV outside the Sheraton Nashua on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Nashua, N.H. following Trump’s win in the New Hampshire primary.

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A person stops to see a pro-Donald J. Trump RV outside the Sheraton Nashua on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2023, in Nashua, N.H. following Trump’s win in the New Hampshire primary.

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Nikki Haley supporters cheer on as the first election results come in.

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Nikki Haley speaks to her supporters at Grappone Conference Center in Concord after her loss to Donald Trump in the New Hampshire GOP Primary.

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Supporters gather before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.

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Supporters gather before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024.

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Trump claims US stockpiles mean wars can be fought ‘forever’; Kristi Noem testifies before Congress – US politics live

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Trump says US stockpiles mean “wars can be fought ‘forever’”

In a late night post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said that the US munitions stockpiles “at the medium and upper medium grade, never been higher or better”.

He added that the US has a “virtually unlimited supply of these weapons”, meaning that “wars can be fought ‘forever’”.

This comes after Trump said that the US-Israel war on Iran could go beyond the four-five weeks that the administration initially predicted. The president also did not rule out the possibility of US boots on the ground in Iran during an interview with the New York Post on Monday.

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“I rebuilt the military in my first term, and continue to do so. The United States is stocked, and ready to WIN, BIG!!!,” he wrote.

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During his opening remarks, Senate judicicary committee chairman, Chuck Grassley, blamed Democrats for the ongoing shutdown Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but highlighted four agencies: the Secret Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Coast Guard.

Democrats are demanding tighter guardrails for federal immigration enforcement, but a sweeping tax bill signed into law last year conferred $75bn for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which means the agency is still functional amid the wider department shuttering.

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Supreme Court blocks redrawing of New York congressional map, dealing a win for GOP

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The Supreme Court on Monday intervened in New York’s redistricting process, blocking a lower court decision that would likely have flipped a Republican congressional district into a Democratic district.    
  
At issue is the midterm redrawing of New York’s 11th congressional district, including Staten Island and a small part of Brooklyn. The district is currently held by a Republican, but on Jan. 21, a state Supreme Court judge ruled that the current district dilutes the power of Black and Latino voters in violation of the state constitution.  
  
GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who represents the district, and the Republican co-chair of the state Board of Elections promptly appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to block the redrawing as an unconstitutional “racial gerrymander.” New York’s congressional election cycle was set to officially begin Feb. 24, the opening day for candidates to seek placement on the ballot.  
  
As in this year’s prior mid-decade redistricting fights — in Texas and California — the Trump administration backed the Republicans.   
 
Voters and the State of New York contended it’s too soon for the Supreme Court to wade into this dispute. New York’s highest state court has not issued a final judgment, so the voters asserted that if the Supreme Court grants relief now “future stay applicants will see little purpose in waiting for state court rulings before coming to this Court” and “be rewarded for such gamesmanship.” The state argues this is an issue for “New York courts, not federal courts” to resolve, and there is sufficient time for the dispute to be resolved on the merits. 
  
The court majority explained the decision to intervene in 101 words, which the three dissenting liberal justices  summarized as “Rules for thee, but not for me.” 
 
The unsigned majority order does not explain the Court’s rationale. It says only how long the stay will last, until the case moves through the New York State appeals courts. If, however, the losing party petitions and the court agrees to hear the challenge, the stay extends until the final opinion is announced. 
 
Dissenting from the decision were Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Writing for the three, Sotomayor  said that  if nonfinal decisions of a state trial court can be brought to highest court, “then every decision from any court is now fair game.” More immediately, she noted, “By granting these applications, the Court thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country, even as many States redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 election.” 

Monday’s Supreme Court action deviates from the court’s hands-off pattern in these mid-term redistricting fights this year. In two previous cases — from Texas and California — the court refused to intervene, allowing newly drawn maps to stay in effect.  
  
Requests for Supreme Court intervention on redistricting issues has been a recurring theme this term, a trend that is likely to grow.  Earlier last month  the high court allowed California to use a voter-approved, Democratic-friendly map.  California’s redistricting came in response to a GOP-friendly redistricting plan in Texas that the Supreme Court also permitted to move forward. These redistricting efforts are expected to offset one another.     
   
But the high court itself has yet to rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map, which was drawn by the state legislature after the decennial census in order to create a second majority-Black district.  Since the drawing of that second majority-black district, the state has backed away from that map, hoping to return to a plan that provides for only one majority-minority district.    
     
The Supreme Court’s consideration of the Louisiana case has stretched across two terms. The justices failed to resolve the case last term and chose to order a second round of arguments this term adding a new question: Does the state’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority district violate the constitution’s Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments’ guarantee of the right to vote and the authority of Congress to enforce that mandate?    
Following the addition of the new question, the state of Louisiana flipped positions to oppose the map it had just drawn and defended in court. Whether the Supreme Court follows suit remains to be seen. But the tone of the October argument suggested that the court’s conservative supermajority is likely to continue undercutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act.   

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Map: Earthquake Shakes Central California

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Map: Earthquake Shakes Central California

Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 3 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “weak,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown.  All times on the map are Pacific time. The New York Times

A minor earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 struck in Central California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The temblor happened at 7:17 a.m. Pacific time about 6 miles northwest of Pinnacles, Calif., data from the agency shows.

As seismologists review available data, they may revise the earthquake’s reported magnitude. Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map.

Source: United States Geological Survey | Notes: Shaking categories are based on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale. When aftershock data is available, the corresponding maps and charts include earthquakes within 100 miles and seven days of the initial quake. All times above are Pacific time. Shake data is as of Monday, March 2 at 10:20 a.m. Eastern. Aftershocks data is as of Monday, March 2 at 11:18 a.m. Eastern.

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